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Except wait. They can. Just not in English, because our language is often pretty rubbish and doesn’t have the words we need.

Like kummerspeck (literally grief bacon, meaning the weight put on through emotional eating) and schadenfreude (taking pleasure from other people’s bad luck).

And in matters of love, it turns out other languages have got a bunch of romantic feelings covered, word wise. While we fail.

Emma Block created illustrations for a bunch of ultra romantic untranslatable words for Vashi. They’re lovely, but make us feel a bit crap about the English language. We need equivalents for these, asap.

This one is terribly fitting for British flirting.

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Rush hour crush, basically

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Would be even more useful if we replace ‘visit’ with ‘text’

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

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Closest English word: Heaven

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

‘The cold misery of being so, so single’ would also be handy

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Giddiness or ‘wow, I’m so nervous I feel like I might actually throw up’

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

The opposite of schadenfreude

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Those in a long distance relationship will feel this word

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

And this one, too

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

This form of PDA might not even be thing in the UK, but we’d still like a word for it

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Bit heavy, but sure

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

What’s happening with us and Jamie Dornan, basically

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Wow, I’m so single

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

We’re all guilty of this, and all need a word for it

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

Deep.

(Picture: Emma Block/Vashi)

We’ll get back to mumbling through rubbish explanations of how we truly feel, now. Thanks, English language.